The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories

This is an unusual collection of stories featuring cats. Some funny,some realistic, some sad, some boring. Many familiar authors and several I've never read. Will appeal to feline fans for the most part.

A perfect short story collection for the Cat Lady in your life!

Being a crazy cat lady, I love this book! I was amazed to discover that even literary masters as Mark Twain and Emile Zola have written stories about cats. It was versatile and very interesting. This book would be a great gift for other cat lovers.

A big thank you to the author for putting these stories in one spot. Most I had never read or knew about. Kudos!!

The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories is a highly recommended collection of twenty nine stories featuring cats. Although a majority of the stories will appeal to cat lovers, there are a few that won't. As with any anthology, skip the ones you don't like to move on to the many you will.

Contents in this collection include:
Tobermory by Saki The Cat that Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft Cats’ Paradise by Émile Zola The Cat’s Grave by Natsume Sōseki The Black and White Dynasties by Théophile Gautier Midshipman, the Cat by John Coleman Adams The Cat by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault The Watchers by Bram Stoker Zut by Guy Wetmore Carryl The Afflictions of an English Cat by Honoré de Balzac Gipsy by Booth Tarkington The Blue Dryad by G. H. Powell Madame Jolicoeur’s Cat by Thomas A. Janvier Calvin by Charles Dudley Warner The Queen’s Cat by Peggy Bacon Plato: The Story of a Cat by A. S. Downs Frisk’s First Rat by Charles W. Chesnutt Aunt Cynthia’s Persian Cat by L. M. Montgomery How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe by Charles G. D. Roberts From the Diary of a Cat by Edwina Stanton Babcock A Black Affair by W. W. Jacobs The Yellow Terror by W. L. Alden A Talk with Mark Twain’s Cat, the Owner Being Invisible by The New York Times On Cats by Guy de Maupassant The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat by Saki My Cat by Michel de Montaigne Tom Quartz by Mark Twain

Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Dover for review purposes.

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What a delightful collection! It contains everything from classic cat stories and fairy tales to fantastical suspense, authors from Rudyard Kipling and Charles Perrault to Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft and L.M. Montgomery. These cats are pampered or homeless, go to sea or stay home; they are famous, personified, feared or just loved. Some seek revenge, others tolerate those around them; some protect humans, others protect themselves. Some stories are entertaining and some spooky while others poignant or wistfully nostalgic.

Through it all the theme remains: cats are cats, and any cat-owned will recognize the truth.

A delightful anthology of 29 cat stories. It is an excellent variety of cat stories . Some of the authors were a surprise to me as I would never had thought of them writing cat stories. If you a cat lover, this is a must read!

Princess Fuzzypants here:
As a cat, I can say there are few things as satisfying as a good anthology of cat stories. We have quite a few compiliations of short story cat mysteries and take them out for a re-read often. Anthologies are purrfect for the times a reader does not want to get bogged down in a long tale but wants to pounce in and out quickly.
These are some of the best general cat stories from some fantastic authors. They are satisfying and enjoyable like a good game with a feathered toy and a nap in the sun.
Highly recommended for the literary cat and their humans.
Five purrs and two paws up.

For all cat lovers this is a delight. It is a collection of 29 of the following stories that will both tug at your cat loving heartstrings and make you purr. Tobermory by Saki The Cat that Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft Cats’ Paradise by Émile Zola The Cat’s Grave by Natsume Sōseki The Black and White Dynasties by Théophile Gautier Midshipman, the Cat by John Coleman Adams The Cat by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault The Watchers by Bram Stoker Zut by Guy Wetmore Carryl The Afflictions of an English Cat by Honoré de Balzac Gipsy by Booth Tarkington The Blue Dryad by G. H. Powell Madame Jolicoeur’s Cat by Thomas A. Janvier Calvin by Charles Dudley Warner The Queen’s Cat by Peggy Bacon Plato: The Story of a Cat by A. S. Downs Frisk’s First Rat by Charles W. Chesnutt Aunt Cynthia’s Persian Cat by L. M. Montgomery How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe by Charles G. D. Roberts From the Diary of a Cat by Edwina Stanton Babcock A Black Affair by W. W. Jacobs The Yellow Terror by W. L. Alden A Talk with Mark Twain’s Cat, the Owner Being Invisible by The New York Times On Cats by Guy de Maupassant The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat by Saki My Cat by Michel de Montaigne Tom Quartz by Mark Twain Disclosure:. I found most of the above stories a enjoyable read and time spent with cats is never wasted. Some wonderful authors here and stories you may have never read. I appreciate the advance reading copy from Dover publications and Neg Galley. One of the most enjoyable books I have read this year! I will definitely be buying this book for all the cat lovers in my life. 4 paws up and a big whisker kiss .